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Happyville 

School Picnic 



BY 
WILLIS N. BUGBEE 



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The Happy ville 

School Picnic 

A Play For Children 

BY 

WILLIS N, BUGBEE 

Author of "Closing Day at Beanville School,'^ 
"Uncle Si and the Sunbeam Club,'' "Grad- 
uation at Gay ville,'' "Aunt Sophronia at 
College,'' etc., etc. 



Copyright 1920, by Willis N. Bugbee 



The Willis N. Bugbee Co, 

SYRACUSE, N. Y. 



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The Happy ville School Pichic 



CHARACTERS 



Johnny Perkins 
Harry Wright 
Allen Tubbs 
Fred Houston 
Frank Austin 
Ebenezer Bumpus 
Peter Green 
Jacob Hoffman 



Jennie Hobbs 
Fanny Smith 
Annie Dean 
Mary Jane Gill 
Matilda Plunkett 
Dora Price 
Flora Price 
Lisbeth Ann Mills 



Miss Simms 



COSTUMES 

Jacob wears very large baggy pants and large-figured 
waist. Peter is padded to appear very fleshy. His 
clothes are very tight-fitting. In latter part of play 
he wears a potato bag around him like a skirt. 

Any costumes may be worn by other children — 
odd-fitting, gaily-colored, or ordinary as desired. 
Miss Simms wears light-colored summer suit. 

Time of Playing : Thirty minutes or longer. 
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The Happyville School Picnic 

Scene: An open space in the woods with shrubbery 
at the back of stage. A teeter board is back of center. 
{Enter Johnny, r., Jennie, l.) 

Johnny. Hello, Jennie! Ain't it a bully day for 
the picnic. 

Jennie. Yes, but you'd better not let Miss Simms 
hear you say that. 

Johnny. Well then, isn't it a real nice day — and 
gee! but ain't we going to have a bushel of fun. 

Jennie. See all the tables and swings and teeter 
boards? My pa helped put 'em up this morning. 

Johnny. Did he? Well soon's I find a place for 
this old basket I'm going to get into one of the swings. 
(Enter Harry.) 

Harry. Miss Simms anywhere round? 

Johnny. Guess not. I'm looking for her myself. 

Jennie. So'm I. Wish she'd come. 
(Enter Frank.) 

Frank. Where's Miss Simms? 

Johnny. You tell us and we'll tell you. 

Jennie. Oh, there she comes now — back of those 
trees. 

Harry. And a whole bunch of kids tagging her 
up. 

Frank (pointing). Look at Jake! I'll bet a nickel 
with a hole in it that he's got his pa's pants on with 
the legs cut off. 

(Enter Miss S., Fanny, Annie, Mary Jane, Matilda, 
Allen and Fred.) 

Jennie. Oh, Miss Simms, we've been looking all 
over for you. 

Miss S. Have you? Well, I'm right here. 



4 THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 

Johnny. Say, Miss Simms, do you know what 
you make me think of? 

Miss S. Why, no — how should I? 

Johnny. You make me think of the old woman 
that went to St. Ives with seven kids and each kid 
had seven sacks and each sack had seven cats and— 

Fanny. Johnny Perkins, you mean thing! We 
aren't kids any more'n you are — 

Annie. And we haven't got seven cats either. 

Miss S. There, there, children, you musn't quar- 
rel at the picnic. We want everybody to be happy 
today. 

Allen. We ought to be happy because we live in 
Happyville. 

Miss S. That's true — a village with such a happy 
name ought to have happy people in it. 

Mary J. My ma says there's more mean folks 
live here than any other place we ever lived in. 

Miss S. How many places have you lived in, 
Mary Jane? 

Mary J. Just two. We lived at Grubb Holler onct. 

Miss S. Well, now we must find a place to put 
these baskets, children. 

Johnny. I'll be glad of that. Mine's heavy as 
lead. It's chuck full of baked beans. 

Jennie. So's mine. 

Fanny. And mine. 

Annie. And mine. 

Mary. Mine, too. 

Fred. Gee! I guess w^e all brought beans, didn't 
we, teacher? It's going to be a regular bean picnic. 

Miss S. Dear me! How did it ever happen? 
And I thought it was all arranged so nicely just what 



THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 5 

you were each to bring. 

Jennie. Well, you know you told me to bring beans. 
Miss S. Yes, you and Fannie and Harry were to 
bring beans, but the rest of you — 

Jake. I didn't pring beans, teacher. I pring some- 
dings petter as beans — I pring limperger cheese. 
(All hold noses.) 

Several. Oh, phew! Limberger cheese! 
Frank. I didn't bring beans, either. I brought 
pickles. 

Miss S. How about you, Johnny? 
Johnny. Gee! I guess I must have forgot and 
told ma to bake beans instead of a cake. 

Mary. I told ma you wanted her to bake a cake 
but she said she didn't have time. She said it was 
easier to bake beans. 

Fanny. I'm afraid I forgot to tell my ma what 
to bake. 

Matilda. Well, I've got a cake anyway, and ma 
says we can have another one if we want it. 
(Enter Ebenezer with basket.) 
Annie. I'll bet Ebenezer's got something good in 
his basket. 

Ebenezer. I-I brought some chicken s-sandwiches. 
Want to see 'em? (opens basket.) 

Frank. Jiminy Peter! Them's the funniest sand- 
wiches I ever saw. 

(All look in basket and laugh.) 
Eben. Well, gee whiz! Them's pa's eggs he was 
going to take to m-market. He'll be m-madder'n a 
hornet. 

(Filter Peter.) 
Allen. Here comes Stuffy! What you got in 
your basket. Stuffy? 

Peter. Sandwiches — a hull bushel of 'em. 



6 THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 

Johnny. Good for you. {Counts on fingers.) ^'^o\n 
we've got beans, pickles, sandwiches, raw eggs Vvith 
chickens in 'em, and — 

Fanny. And limberger cheese. 
Several. Oh my! 

Miss S. Well, now all of you go and put your 
baskets on the table where we can find them. 

Frank. All right, Miss Simms. Forward, March! 
{All march in circle singing to tune of ^^ Miller of the 
Deer) 

Oh, we're a band of picknickers — 

A jolly band are we. 
Our baskets filled with goody things, 

As full as they can be, 
And we're prepared to do our best — 

Our very best, oh ho! 
To eat up all these goody things 
Before we homeward go. 
{All exeunt l hi line, except Miss S. Voice at n 
calls, "Mith Thimmsr') 

{Enter Lisbeth Ann, ivith basket.) 
Miss S. Well, if here isn't Lisbeth Ann at last. 
I was afraid you weren't coming. 

Lisbeth. Yeth, ma'am, I've come, and you can't 
geth what I've got in my bathket. 

Miss S. Why, I think like enough it's a cake. 
Lisbeth. Yeth um — a big cake with candy all 
over the top. 

Miss S. You're a Uttle darhng, Lisbeth. 
Lisbeth. Thath what mamma always sath. 

{Enter Annie.) 
Annie. Say, teacher, Mrs. Bumpus and Mrs. 
O'Grady are setting the table aready. 

Miss S. That's real nice of them, I'm sure. 



THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 7 

{Enter Harry.) 

Harry. Oh teacher, pa's here with his buzz wagon. 
He's brought two milk cans full of lemonade, and 
he's going to take Ebeaezer home to get his sand- 
wiches, and he'll get some more cakes for us if you'll 
tell him about 'em. 

Miss S. Yes, Harry, I'll go right away. Come, 
Lisbeth Ann. {Exeunt Miss S. and Lisbeth.) 

Harry. Oh say! Let's you'n me teeter, Annie. 

Annie. Won't you make me fall off? 

Harry. Cross my heart. {Crosses heart.) 

Annie. All right, then, I'll teeter with you. 
{They take places on teeter hoard.) 

Harry. Let's see how high we can go. 

Annie. No, don't! I don't like to go high. 

Harry. 'Twon't hurt you any. I like to go just 
as high as I can go. 

Annie. There! That's high enough. Please don't 
make it go higher. 

Harry. Shucks! You're a fraidy cat. 

Annie. Wait! I'm going to get off. 

Harry. Don't get off. I w^on't make it go high 
any more. 

(Annie attempts to get off and tumbles over. Harry 
does same.) 

Annie. There! I knew you'd make me fall. And 
you've hurt my elbow and got my new dress all dirt 
and — 

Harry. Well you made me fall off, too. 

{Enter Jennie, Matilda, Fanny and Johnny.) 

Jennie. Why, Annie, what's the matter? 

Annie. It was Johnny — he made me fall. 

Harry. Didn't either! She made me fall. 



8 THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 

Matilda. Pshaw! I'll bet you aren't either one 
hurt very bad. 

Johnny. 'Twasn't near so big an accident as 
Stuffy had just now. 

Several. What happened to Stuffy? 

Johnny. Didn't you see it? You missed a circus. 
Ho! ho! ho! 

Jennie. Well, do tell us. Did he fall in the lemon- 
ade? 

Johnny. Why, you see Stuffy was stooping over 
just like this (stoops) and — and — oh gee! 

Matilda. Well, what was it? 

Johnny. I dasn't tell. 

Fanny. Go on — tell us. 

Johnny. Well, you see, when he stooped over I 
guess his clothes fitted too soon or else the cloth 
wasn't very good. 'Tany rate he busted 'em. (Girls 
giggle.) 

Harry. What's he going to do? 

Johnny. He's cut off a potato bag and wearing 
that now. Here he comes. (Calls) Hi, Stuffy! (Beck- 
ons with arm and forefinger.) 
Peter (off stage). What d'ye want? 

Johnny. Come here a minute! (waits.) Aw — 
come on! 

(Enter Peter.) 

Peter. What you want, anyway? 

Johnny. The girls want to see the latest stjde in 
boys' clothing. 

Peter. If I'd known that's all you wanted I 
wouldn't a come. 

Jennie. Never mind, Peter, don't let them bother 
you. 



THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 9 

Peter. I don't care for him, and I'm glad the 
old clothes did bust 'cause I couldn't eat dinner in 
'em anyway — they was too tight. 

{Enter Frank and Allen.) 

Frank. How do you like Stuffy's new suit? 

Allen. I'm going to get the pattern and have ma 
make one like it. 

Fanny. Dear me! I wish the twins were here. 
I wonder why they didn't come. 

Fred. They went to Greenville with their father. 
They're coming if they get back in time. 

Fanny. I do hope they will. 

Allen. Say! Somebody ought to tell Miss Simms 
about Jake. He keeps sticking his fingers in the lemon- 
ade and licking 'em off. 

Matilda. Come on, girls. Let's go and tell her. 

Annie. Jake Hoffman's a regular pig anyway. 
{Exeunt girls.) 

Harry. Jiminy crickets! I'm hungry. 

Johnny. So'm I — hungry as a bear. 

Allen. I wish they'd have dinner 'fore long. 
Don't you feel faint. Stuffy? 

Peter. Feel's if I hadn't had anything to eat for 
a week. I'm holler clear to my toes. 

Frank. Gee whiz! 

{Enter Ebenezer.) 

Johnny. What? Back again, Ebenezer? 

Harry. Did your pa give you a licking for taking 
the eggs? 

Eben. N-nope. He was out to the b-barn hitch- 
ing up. 

Harry. Lucky for you. 

Eben. W-what d'ye s'pose? We got five more 
cakes and Dora's m-mother brought over t-two more. 



10 THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 

Johnny. Whoopee! (Waves arms about.) . 
(Enter Lisbeth Ann.) 

LiSBETH. Mith Thimms wants you all to come to 
dinner right away. 

Allen. We'll be right there, Lisbeth. 

Lisbeth. Thay ! Have you theen Mary Jane any- 
where? 

Johnny. We don't know where Mary Jane is. 

Lisbeth. I got to find her thorn where. 

Harry. Well, you find her while we go and eat. 
Come on, boys. (Exeunt boys.) 

Lisbeth. Oh dear! I wish I could find her. 
They'll all have dinner eaten up 'fore I get there. 
(Looks off stage.) Oh goody! There thee ith now, 
(Calls) Mary Jane! Mary Jane! 
(Enter Mary Jane.) 

Mary J. What's the matter, Lisbeth? 

Lisbeth. The matter ith they're all eating dinner 
and we won't get none leth we hurry. 

Mary J. Have they begun to eat aready? 

Lisbeth. I geth so. 

(Enter Miss Simms.) 

Miss S. Why, Lisbeth and Mary Jane, why aren't 
you at dinner? 

Lisbeth. I've been looking for her. 

Mary J. And I've been home and got ma to make 
some more sandwiches. I thought we wouldn't have 
nothing but beans. 

Miss S. Well, you poor dears, come right along 
with me. (Exeunt.) 

(The stage is empty for a moment. During this time 
the phonograph might be played off stage.) 
(Enter Dora and Flora.) 

Dora. Wonder where they can all be. 



THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 11 

Flora. Probabl}^ eating dinner. 

Dora. Hadn't we better go and eat, too? 

Flora. No, don't let's go now. Let's stay here. 

Dora. Here's a teeter board. Let's teeter while 
we're waiting. 

Flora. Just the thing. 

{They take places on hoard and teeter while they sing 
any see-saw or other good song.) 

{Enter Jennie, Fanny, Johnny and Frank.) 

Fanny. Oh, here's Dora and Flora! 

Jennie. Wh}'- in the world didn't 3^011 come to 
dinner? 

Dora. We just got here a few minutes ago. 

Johnny. Gee! You missed it. I had three messes 
of beans and seven pieces of cake and six sandwiches 
and four glasses of lemonade and — 

Flora. Goodness! L'd be ashamed to tell of it. 

Frank. Those cakes your ma brought were dan- 
dies. 

Dora. We're glad to hear that because we helped 
her make them. 

{Enter Miss S. followed by others.) 

Lisbeth. Oh, look who's here! — Dora'n Flora. 

Miss S. It was too bad you didn't get here in 
time for dinner, girls. 

Flora. We're awful sorry, too. We just got back 
with pa a little while ago and we came right over. 

Miss S. Well, now everybody get seated some- 
where and we'll begin our exercises. {The teeter board 
is arranged for a seat for part of them. Others sit on 
ground. Visitors may enter and stand or sit in rear.) 

Miss S. You may sing your greeting song. 



12 THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 

(All sing to tune of "Marching Through Georgia.'^) 

Welcome to our picnic, every lass and every lad; 

Welcome all you parents, too, and may you all be 
glad, 

So that you may truly say, ''A jolly time we've had" 
While at the Happyville picnic. 
Chorus. 

Hurrah ! Hurrah ! We shout the jubilee ! 

Hurrah! Hurrah! A jolly crowd are we! 

We will have a merry time from care and study free 
While at the Happyville picnic. 

Miss S. Mary Jane has an essay about ' 'Picnics'^ 
which she will read for us. 

LiSBETH. You didn't tell 'em 'bout the prith, Mith 
Thimms. 

Miss S. That's so, I forgot it. Mary Jane won a 
picture book prize for writing the best essay, which 
you are to have the pleasure of hearing. 

Mary Jane {rises and reads.) 
Picnics 

I think picnics are awful nice. They are generally 
held in the woods. You have real good times and 
lots of good things to eat at picnics. That's what 
they're for mostly. A good many ladies like to cook 
nice things to carry so they can show off their cook- 
ing. They ahvays have lots of cakes with frosting on, 
and salads and scalloped potatoes and lemonade, but 
sometimes the lemonade is nothing but coffee. Once 
my cousin got a spider in her coffee. When folks go 
to picnics. they dress up in nice clean clothes and when 
they come home they look like hoboes. At picnics 
you can teeter and swing and sit on the grass in your 
white dresses and romp around as much as you please, 
and the boys like to see how high they can swing the 



THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 13 

girls. I wish picnics would come two times a week. 
Last year I went to four picnics and once I ate so 
much I was sick for most three weeks and had to 
have a doctor besides. Once my aunt went and she 
got scared at a snake and so she won't go any more. 
That's all I know about picnics. (Sits down.) 

Miss S. Next we will have a short exercise in 
physical training. 

Peter. Oh teacher, I can't do it — I et too much. 
Eben. So'd I. 

Miss S. I think j^ou can do it — if you try real 
hard. 

(Peter, Ebenezer, Fanny and Matilda stand in 
a row about five or six feet apart. Annie steps to front 
and gives commands. These commands may vary. 
Only suggestions are given here.) 

A Chests firm! (Elbows raised to level with shoul- 
ders, hands at chest.) 

1. Extend arms forward and back on 8 counts. 

2. Extend arms sideward, 8 counts. 

3. Extend arms upward, 8 counts. 

4. Extend arms downward, 8 counts. 
(Repeat, alternating with right and left arms, if de- 
sired.) 

B Body Bending. 

1. Hands on hips, bend to right four times, 8 
counts. 

2. Bend to left four times, 8 counts. 

3. Bend forward, 8 counts. 

(Peter may appear to make very hard work of it. 
If desired this exercise may be omitted entirely.) 

Peter (wiping forhead with bandanna.) Oh gee! 
Miss S. The next will be a recitation by Frank. 



14 THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 

Frank (rises and recites.) 

POLITICS AT HOME 
We've had the worstest time at home 

Since Ma's begun to vote; 
First one an' then the other tries 

To get each other's goat, 
An' every day it's just the same — 

I don't know where I'm at, 
'Cause pa's a strong Republican 

An' ma's a Democrat. 



I hear 'em in the morning first 

When ma's a fryin' cakes. 
An' late at night when they're in bed 

Until the baby wakes ; 
At dinner time an' supper time, 

An' all the evening through. 
They tell each other horrid things 

That both the parties do. 

If I's a man I'd be ashamed 
To vote most either way 
'Cause both of 'em should be in jail 

A judgin' what they say. 
I don't know which one's goin' to win — 

I sympathize with pa, 
But more I hear their arguments 
I'll stake my ''dough" on ma. 
Miss S. We will now have a dialogue by two boys 
and two girls. 

(Fred, Johnny, Jennie and Matilda take places 
in line.) 
Fred. 

I'm glad I'm not a primpy girl — 
I'd ruther be a boy, 



J 



THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 15 

And romp and play just where I please 

With no one to annoy. 
It's ''Don't do this" and ''Don't do that," 

"You'll spoil your nice new gown" 
Or "Don't go in the sun, my dear, 

And get your face all brown." 
Jennie. 

I'd rather be a "primpy" girl 

Than some boys that I know, 
Who shout and yell like Injun chiefs 

Wherever they may go. 
And climb into the tops of trees 

Like monkeys in a zoo. 
And tear their clothes all full of holes, 

Such things girls never do. 
(Boys say "oh noF'') 
Johnny. 

I'd rather be a "noisy" boy 

Than any fussy girl 
And have to wear my hair done up 

In pigtail or in curl, 
And wear a skirt all trimmed with lace 

A dangling round my knees. 
If 'twan't for that some girls I know 

Would like to climb the trees. 
Matilda. 

I'm awful glad I'm not a boy 

And be obliged to wear 
A big thick coat and horrid pants, 

And all my lovely hair 
Cut off so close I couldn't tie 

My pretty ribbons on — 
And then perhaps I'd have a name 

Like Bill or Mike or John. 



16 THE HAPPYVILLE SCHOOL PICNIC 

All (in chorus). • 

But after all is said and done, 

We think it better far — 
And we will all be satisfied — 
To stay just as we are. 
Miss S. Jacob Hoffman has a recitation entitled 
''The Spider and the Maid." 
Jacob (rises and recites). 

The Spider and the Maid 

A lufly maiden lady vent 

To a pick-a-nick von day 
Und sat down on a bench to rest 

Und pass some time avay, 
Und vile she sat there — pooty quick — 

A leedle shpider came 
Und tried his pest to flirt mit her — 

He vasn't much to blame. 
Und ven she spied dat shpider — oh! 

She gave no vinning shmile 
But shumped und screamed so loud I pet 

You heard her half a mile. 
Now if some nice young man vould come 

Und vhisper in her ear, 
I vonder vould she scream so loud 
Dot efry von could hear? 
(Other recitations, songs or duets may he introduced 
as desired to lengthen the program.) 

Miss S. We will now have the closing song. 
(While any song may he rendered here it is suggested 
that ^'Just Smile and Say Good-hye^' he used. The 
whole company may join in singing.) 

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